Bookworm

WHO: Charles Eliot Pierce Jr., the 56-year-old director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, the research library and museum founded in 1906 by financier J. Pierpont Morgan.

WHERE: 29 E. 36th St., New York City.

WHAT YOU SEE: A scholarly refuge from the frenetic rush of Madison Avenue. Befitting the former home of one of America's luckiest heirs, the first-floor office has an elaborate fireplace, needlepoint armchairs, and a coffee...